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Katter and Palmer in Queensland Senate tussle

Palmer United Party (PUP) leader Clive Palmer smiles as Katter's Australian Party leader Bob Katter speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra on August 26, 2013.

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The fight for Queensland's sixth Senate seat is intensifying, with the latest polling suggesting that Clive Palmer's Palmer United Party is now at an outside chance to pick up the seat, and with it, a shot at the balance of power.

Bob Katter's Australia Party (KAP) is considered a good chance to pick up the same Senate spot, thanks in part to a deal that will see Labor preference KAP ahead of the Greens in the Sunshine State.

Mr Palmer himself is even more optimistic about his party's chances than the public polls, saying he expects to pick up two Senate spots in Queensland and one in NSW.

He says voters have had enough of the major parties and are looking for alternatives.

"We've put forward a plan. I've got a track record of being successful in business. We're dealing with a business problem," he said.

"I know these guys [in the major parties] have never had a job, I know they've been in parliament or the public service for over 30 or 40 years, like a stew cooking.

"And you know what happens if you cook a stew for 30 years, you know what rises to the top. That's what's happened in this place."

If Katter's Australia Party is successful in its bid for the last Queensland Senate seat, it would see country musician James Blundell enter Federal Parliament.

Mr Katter says that his party will not automatically side with either the Coalition or Labor, should it hold the balance of power in the Senate after the election.

He's also defended his deal with the Labor Party in Queensland, which he says was designed to minimise the Greens' presence in the Federal Parliament after the election.

"We've taken terrific pain ourselves in this advertising [LNP] campaign [against the preference deal], to try and protect our state from putting a Green in that sixth Senate spot.

"I won't resile from the fact that that sixth Senate spot will now go to James Blundell of the KAP, and I won't resile or apologise to [the LNP] now or ever.

"And if the LNP think we're going to be a rubber stamp and give them every single preference in Australia, well, we're not a rubber stamp for the Liberal Party and we're most certainly not a rubber stamp for the ALP."

Mr Katter has threatened legal action against the LNP campaign against him in north Queensland, which claims that a vote for him is a vote for Labor.

In a statement, an LNP spokesman said that the party doesn't resile from that claim.

"Katter's Australian Party is directing its preferences to Labor in the Senate and Lower House seats throughout Queensland. It is misleading for Bob Katter to suggest otherwise.

"Mr Katter acknowledges in his statement that his party is directing preferences to Labor in one state - and that's Queensland.

"The television advertisements were approved by the proper independent authority before they went to air. If Mr Katter genuinely believed he had a case to argue, he could bring the matter before a court this afternoon."